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Treasure of Green Knowe (Green Knowe Chronicles) | 
 enlarge | Author: L. M. Boston
Creators: Brett Helquist, Peter Boston
Publisher: Odyssey Classics
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 16898
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0152026010
EAN: 9780152026011
ASIN: 0152026010
Publication Date: April 2002
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Enchanting March 10, 2008
Secret Spi (Germany)
Just as the first book in the series, "The Children of Green Knowe", is filled with the magic of winter and Christmas greenery, so the second book has an underlying theme of awakening to fit with the spring and Easter setting.
Unlike the children of the first book, the two children Tolly encounters from the early 19th century are misfits: the blind daughter of the house and the freed slave boy from Barbados that Susan's kindly sea-captain father brings as company for her. These children and the way that they perceive the world are described with such insight by the author that even today's children can learn a lot about tolerance of difference in an subtle way.
And as well as the serious underlying message and the beautiful descriptions of an English house and garden in springtime, there is plenty to keep young readers' (or listeners') attention: adventure and mystery, some rather nasty pieces of work amongst the adult characters and even a fair dollop of humour.
warning - dual title June 30, 2007
Bagpuss (UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
For those hoping for an unknown 'Green Knowe" book it's worth making it clear that this book is "The Chimneys of Green Knowe" under a new title.
MAGIC! February 21, 2006
A Creative Writing Student (Mars)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am not a fan of sequels.
However, I just had to see if the magic of the first book could carry over to the next.
I opened the book and didn't put it down until I had read it from cover to cover.
As someone who is pretty much obsessed with the first book, I can honestly say this one lives up to all my expectations. The atmosphere of the house, the way past and present are mingled effortlessly and, most important of all, the way she describes Tolly's thoughts seem to have been written effortlessly by Mrs Boston. Forget the Harry Potter books (I never liked them), this is what all budding children's authors should look up to - a truly magical formula that has yet to be equalled.
WOnderful novel - was The Chimneys of Green Knowe December 8, 2003
A. Craig (London United Kingdom)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
This was the first Green Knowe novel I read, and it began a life-long love for Lucy M. Boston's series. Many people share it (there are actually annual pilgrimages to the real-life Fenland house)and hurrah for the publisher who brought it back into print. Tolly has returned to his grandmother and the mysterious Fen-land house, with its moat and clipped yew-trees, its statue of St. Christopher and its ghosts. This enchanted world, in which past and present mingle after one of his grandmother's stories, is under threat. It seems as if the only way they can raise money to save the house is to sell the painting of the three children who are Tolly's ghostly companions. But as Mrs. Oldknow tells Tolly more stories, each one linked to a piece of fabric on her patchwork quilt, another story, and new ghosts, emerge. This is the tale of blind Susan and the slave-boy Jacob, bought by her sea-faring father to be a companion. Each liberates the other from fear and ignorance, and when a gypsy's curse comes home to roost, Jacob saves Susan's life at tremendous risk to his own. The lost treasure of the past becomes Tolly's only hope for the future... Written in beautiful, deceptively simple prose this is a work of great passion - a passion for love, justice, imagination, kindness and beauty. The illustration, by Boston's son,are perfectly of a piece with it. It's a story that somehow takes you by surprise each time, and no child should be without it.
why is this out of print? December 13, 2002
A. Craig (London United Kingdom)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
because it's one of the best children's novels ever written. A ghost story, a treasure-hunt, and a very psecial kind of detective story, it's the sequel to The Children of Green Knowe. Tolly, the lonely little boy who blossoms under the care of his grandmother at the mysterious house of Green Knowe gradually learns about his ancestress, Susan. A blind girl, she is brought back a black boy as her playmate by her father, a sea-captain. Her foolish, beautiful mother and nrother Sefton try to treat the boy as a slave, but Susan and her playfellow learn to read together, and Susan becomes increasingly independent. Which is just as well, because a gyspy curse will soon see her depending on him for her life...What makes LM Boston's novels so special is the beauty and sympathy of her writing, and her feel for place and history. Green Knowe is based on a real house, and everything in it from the carved angels in the hall to the sinister figures clipped out of yew, feel solid and real.
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